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Comment · 1 month ago
If one says "Good design is part of the functionality", one can also say "Interface is part of the experience".
Comment · 3 months ago
>everyone communicates differently

Yes, and those differences have an intrinsic value. As an example, my comment's "cover" communicates my discontent and frustration with "AI tone". As a matter of fact, my "cover" here became the discussion itself. Thus, my comment's "cover" is not actually a cover but a part of the communication. In contrast, the "AI tone" is just a cover to make a writing look superficially more professional without adding any value to the communicated idea or emotion.

Comment · 3 months ago
Those firms have no say over which treatments are preferred on which patients in single-payer health systems. Actually, it is the exact opposite. When there is a single payer, they can haggle on behalf of the entire population so they have huge leverage over the treatment costs. The government can simply say "You either sell at the price that I want, or lose access to the entire market in this country.". That's why American drugs can be 10-100x more expensive than the rest of the world.
Comment · 3 months ago
From my understanding of USA as a foreigner, tax dollars are for corporate bailouts and military.
Comment · 3 months ago
>The big-medicine industrial complex is always trying to get you to have worse health so they can maximize how much they bill you when you finally break.

Ok, if this is the argument that you want to use, here is a counterargument that completely destroys your viewpoint.

Most civilized countries don't bill the patient, and it is entirely funded by either taxes or mandatory public insurance. So just like how it is in "big-medicine industrial complex's" best interest to maximize profits, it is in the health system's best interest to lower cost. So if whole-body scans for otherwise healthy (as in no symptoms) people means less profit for those companies, it means less cost for the health system, which would mean they would be promoting (or even requiring) whole-body scans. MRI machines are much cheaper than doctors.

Comment · 3 months ago
>judge content not by its cover and think

If we are supposed to not judge the content by its cover, then don't put a cover on it. It's that simple. AI adds no value to the content, just some noise that makes it harder to reach the actual information/emotion.

Comment · 4 months ago
Yes and no. Some are just way overconfident in their knowledge of medicine and human body, while it is miniscule compared to the average physician's. Medicine is a field much larger than people realize. It is easy to think you know a lot when you don't even know how much you are missing.

Having a reason doesn't make it any less dangerous though.

Comment · 4 months ago
That is relatively benign compared to what I've seen before. I normally refrain from repeating misinformation, even for debunking it but I will make an exception (or two). I've seen comments ranging from "salt intake doesn't increase blood pressure because you pee what you don't need" to "blood glucose levels aren't good for diagnosing diabetes".

Edit: OK, that's not really a "range". I have no idea why I phrased it like that. Both are very dangerous statements that can be life threatening if the wrong person believes it. I just hope that comment didn't cause any diabetic ketoacidosis cases.

Comment · 4 months ago
I assume you are American? I find it sad that a doctor has any incentive other than providing their patients with the best care possible.
Comment · 4 months ago
Medical doctor here. Please don't get health advice from hn comments. As a matter of fact, I advice against reading anything about health on hn, as the risks of dangerous misinformation far outweigh any useful information you might learn here.
Comment · 7 months ago
>similar niche genres of games have managed to mostly ignore each other

That's only because they are only "similar" on the surface. It feels like saying "football, volleyball and basketball are similar" just because they are all team games played with a ball.

Comment · 9 months ago
I doubt anyone who is too tight on cash that they have to think about the electricity cost of a home server can afford a Mac.
Comment · 1 year ago
>improves recall

Citation needed.

Comment · 1 year ago
> the process of generating the cards contributes substantially to the learning and memory formation.

How is creating a card anything different than reviewing the card once? Anki is a long term tool, writing something down once isn't. The time spent creating cards is better spent on doing more reviews.

Comment · 1 year ago
>Then you are deliberately handicapping yourself, this isn't something you can blame on the OS.

The classic "You're holding it wrong" defense. Especially when the alternatives don't have this problem.

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